MARK OLIVE'S OUTBACK CAFE

A Taste of Australia

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Softcover book in very good condition, 124 pages, published 2006.

A mixture of lifestyle and cookery, Outback Cafe presents a vision of Australia as it has never been seen before: Aboriginal communities, remote locations, bush foods and restaurant cuisine.

Outback Cafe takes readers on an unprecedented tour through the outback and winds up in a five-star kitchen. It brings together two cultures presented perfectly and delectably on a plate of sumptuous cuisine.

In Outback Cafe, Mark Olive journeys across Australia, visiting breathtaking landscapes and remote Aboriginal communities where local people show him bush foods in the wild and pass on ancient knowledge about their use. Mark introduces readers to dozens of outback wonders and uses his skills as a chef (acquired over more than 20 years), blending bush flavours with international cuisines to create his own mouth-watering recipes.

Contents include:

• Introducing Mark Olive
• Communities
• Cooking with indigenous herbs, spices & bush fruits - including desert limes, saltbush, muntries, quandong, wattleseed, lemon myrtle leaf
• Mark cooks at Aboriginal communities
• Mark's selected menus - BBQ, Brunch, Long lunch, Drinks

Mark Olive's Outback Cafe is an Australian publication. All recipe measurements are in metric and metric cup & spoon.

About the author

Mark Olive (born Wollongong 1962), also known as the Black Olive, is a Bundjulung man and an Indigenous Australian chef. Mark had a cooking segment on the ABC TV's Message Stick series and later got his own TV cooking series, The Outback Cafe, on which this book is based. In 2008 Mark established his own catering business to share the tastes and flavours of Indigenous Australia, and he now cooks regularly for clients including Tourism Australia at corporate, public and cultural events around the country and the internationally, bringing his signature infusions of contemporary outback flavours to every occasion.

Mark’s business was chosen as one of the destinations on Oprah’s Victorian itinerary when she travelled to Australia in 2010 with her Ultimate Audience. Her lucky guests were treated to a cultural experience of indigenous food, art and storytelling during Mark’s cooking demonstration..

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Outback Cafe by Mark Olive